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When his father takes a job as a doctor with the Panama Canal project in 1911, William, who is fascinated with the canal, gets to learn about it firsthand, while he also learns about life from a Jamaican girl who has become his best friend.

This book, with its hundreds of maps, tables, charts, and photographs, presents articles on the history of each African nation and every major cultural, religious, and political movement in Africa and the New World.

Explorers' diaries and journals, carbon-14-dated sculptures, Arab documents and maps, and dated skeletons provide evidence for the pre-Columbian presence in the Americas of black men and their influence on the Olmec, Mayan, and Aztec civilizations.

Long before the sun even thinks of rising the Haitian children run to school where they learn the letters, sounds, and words of their beautiful books.

Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.

When her elderly Jewish neighbor Solomon Leshko catches her spray-painting her tenement hallway as an expression of her anger and frustration, fourteen-year-old Opie begins an unusual friendship with him.